Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 236, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1920 — BOMB WRECKS CHICAGO HOME [ARTICLE]

BOMB WRECKS CHICAGO HOME

Aiderman Blamee Political EnomlM for Outrage—Offer* Reward of J Chicago, Sept. *o.—AldJMm Powers, dean of the city council, offered a reward of 82,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of men who bombed his home at I*M Macallster place, causing damages of 82,500 and arousing the neighborhood for a radius of six blocks Alderman Powers had no hesitancy in stating that he believed the persons who placed the bomb on the front porch of the house were political enemies and that their purpose was to take his life. Just before the explosion, which happened about midnight, two men wwe seen running away from the house. They antered an’ automobile and drove west at high speed.